Tack-extractor



(No Model.)

G. J. OAPEWELL.

Tack Extractor.

No. 233,599. Patented Oct. 26, 1880..

Wzlnessea. JnvenZ'or UNITED STATES ATENT Finch.

GEORGE J. CAPEWELL, OF CHESHIRE, CONNECTICUT.

TACK-EXTRACTO R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 233,599, dated October26, 1880,

Application filed July 27, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE J. CAPEWELL, acitizen of the United States, residing at Cheshire, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tack-Drawers and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and toletters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to implements for drawing tacks out of floors andwalls; and it consists in the construction and combination of partshereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy improved tack-drawer, and Fig. 2 represents the jaws thereof indetail. r

A designates the stock or handle of the tool; B, a bifurcated jawconsisting of two parallel plates, b b, socketed into said stock, and Ca single jaw pivoted between said plates. Each of said plates b isprovided with a curved point, I), and the single jaw C is provided witha curved point, 0, arranged opposite to said points 12 b. All of thesethree parts I) b C are stamped or otherwise cut out of sheet metal ofsuitable thickness.

Thejaw C is provided with a tail, C, which is curved to form arocker-like fulcrum for compelling the point 0 of said jaw to close onthe tack in the act of withdrawing the latter. The bifurcated jaw Bpasses under the head of the tack on both sides of its shank. Then adownward pressure on tail C of j aw C causes both jaws to bite the tackand pull it out of 0 the floor.

The relative positions of the single and the bifurcated jaws may bechanged, and various modifications may be made in the forms of theseveral parts above named.

The tack-drawer thus constructed is cheaply manufactured, since nothingis required except to stamp out the parts C and I) b by means ofsuitable dies from plates of metal, and then to fit them together on thestock, as stated.

The implement produced is very simple and very light, and its parts, ifinjured, are easily replaced. Thus the breaking or bending of one plateI) will not make the other useless.

I am aware that implements have been constructed and patented forpulling spikes and nails having a single jaw and a bifurcated jaw, as inthe patent granted to W. Upton, dated April 16, 1878, No. 202,609; also,that a patent was granted G. Stone, January 31, 1865, No. 46,154, whichshows a single jaw pivoted between the forks of a bifurcated fulcrum,the latter being provided with two rockers and a single jaw securedbetween them. I do not broadly claim either construction.

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of sheet-metal plates 1) b, forming bifurcated jaw B,with single sheetmetal jaw 0, provided with tail C and pivoted betweenthem, these three plates C b b constituting, with the stock A, the wholeof the tack-drawer.

In testimony whereof I afflx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: G. J. CAPEWELL.

EDWARD A. CORNWALL, OORNELIA A. CORNWELL.

